Chapter 751 Mang Mountain, the Goal Is Luoyang
A group of craftsmen were brought before Chu Tian. These craftsmen of the Han Empire were not ordinary craftsmen, but senior craftsmen who had mastered the skills of making Xiangyang cannons.
Lao Qin built many walled cities in Guanzhong and Heluo for defense, especially the majestic cities and checkpoints such as Luoyang City, Tongguan City, Chang'an City, and Xianyang City, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack. Then you need a large siege machine.
The Xiangyang Cannon is already the peak siege weapon in the era of cold weapons.
There are hundreds of craftsmen in front of them, and they are good at making siege equipment. Under each person, they are in charge of a small craftsman team. There are middle-level craftsmen, low-level craftsmen, and craftsman apprentices in the craftsman team. In fact, there are tens of thousands of craftsmen under the Ministry of War making siege equipment!
"This time we will conquer Guanzhong and conquer Luoyang, Chang'an, and Xianyang, and we will have to rely on your abilities."
"Your Highness has an order, and the villains dare not disobey!"
Chutian summoned senior craftsmen and super craftsmen whose abilities were second only to legendary craftsmen (historical special talents).
Artisans are a negligible force, but before the Mongolian army demonstrated that having a large army of artisans was very advantageous when attacking a city without having to go through a long siege.
"Liu Ye, the household registration and logistics of this siege force will all be managed by you. You will cooperate with Wu Qi and Le Yi to capture Luoyang."
Chu Tian said to a civil servant beside him.
Liu Ye's talent is not only to provide bonuses for siege equipment, but also to handle internal affairs.
Liu Ye served as a civil servant when recuperating, and after the war, he was responsible for managing craftsmen and went to the front to attack the city.
Liu Ye made a bow: "Your Highness, please rest assured."
The northern war will be extremely fierce, but Liu Ye is very fanatical. If he wins, then he will have made a contribution to the dragon.
Liu Ye led the craftsmen to leave.
"Guanzhong is a place that is easy to overturn. There are countless princes who made their fortunes from Guanzhong."
Chu Tian watched Liu Ye leave, and he also wanted to prepare for the expedition.
Wu Qi's Jizhou Army is the vanguard force, and the current goal is to capture Hanoi County north of the Yellow River.
Chutian will personally lead the cavalry to attack Luoyang.
Old Qin had many cavalry generals, the most fierce of which were Lu Bu, Yang Dayan and other fierce generals. Wu Qi had never faced this kind of cavalry pig rush tactics of later generations.
In Hanoi County, the white-robed army was the vanguard, breaking through several county towns!
The 20,000 white-robed elites and the 80,000 Wei military soldiers are mighty and mighty. Unless they are the main force of the Guanzhong Army, they cannot resist at all. Wherever they go, they are all invincible!
The euphorbia warriors climbed up to the city, and Zhang Yun captured a stronghold without any difficulty.
Wu Qi, commander of 180,000 cavalry, aggressively invaded Hanoi County, and when he collected the counties, he swept up the cottages everywhere.
There are many remnants of the Baibo army in Hanoi and Hedong counties. In Wu Qi's view, these bandits can be easily suppressed once and for all.
"The Guanzhong Army doesn't intend to defend Hanoi County?"
Wu Qi originally planned to wipe out the main force of the Guanzhong Army in Hanoi County, but Lao Qin shrank his defenses and gave up Hanoi County, which was difficult to defend.
Hanoi County is too close to Yecheng to resist the continuous offensive from Hebei.
"The Guanzhong army should have shrunk to the areas of Hedong and Luoyang Mangshan."
Wei Wuji sat on a shaking chariot.
Generals of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods still had a certain interest in chariots, and some of them directly used the chariots of the Warring States period as their mounts.
"Since the Guanzhong Army intends to defend Luoyang to the death, we will temporarily abandon Hedong County. We will go to Mengjindu and take Luoyang first."
Wu Qi sat on the chariot, closed his eyes and meditated.
The endless Wei Wuzu, with their long swords standing everywhere, went all the way to the edge of the Yellow River, and no one could stop them. On the other side of the Yellow River was Mangshan Mountain.
After passing Mang Mountain, there is Luoyang, a city that was rebuilt after being burned by the fire.
"Hoo!"
Zhao Yun reined in the reins of his war horse, raised his spear, and the eight thousand white horses followed him.
He looked at the rolling Yellow River,
And Mang Mountain on the other side.
The slope of the Yellow River channel becomes smaller here, the water flow slows down, and the channel is narrow. Since ancient times, Mengjin has been the gateway to the north of Luoyang.
The eighteen princes attacked Dong Zhuo, and Cao Cao suggested that the troops should be divided into groups to attack Luoyang. Among them, Hulao Pass was attacked in the east and Mengjin was attacked in the north, but the princes did not intend to make progress.
Now, Cao Cao's suggestion was approved by Chutian, and the main forces were divided into two groups to attack Luoyang.
On the north route, Wu Qi led the elite from Hebei to cross the Yellow River in the south; on the east route, Le Yi led the elite from Henan to the Hulao Pass in the west.
Xue Rengui could vaguely see the cavalry of the Guanzhong Army on patrol on the south bank of the Yellow River.
The Guanzhong army already knew that the North Route soldiers and horses commanded by Wu Qi had captured Hanoi County and approached the Yellow River.
On the south bank of the Yellow River, Lu Bu, who aspired to be king, led the Bingzhou Wolf Riders to patrol, glaring at Hebei.
According to Lao Qin's promise to him, as long as King Xia is killed, he will become King Qi of the Han Empire, and even the future emperor.
Lu Bu thought it would be easy for him to kill Chutian himself, but what was more difficult was Chutian's guard, Dian Wei, and a group of strong generals from Chutian's forces. Among these strong generals, some even possessed comparable strength to Lu Bu.
"King Qin has seized the highlands of Mount Mang. If they dare to cross the Yellow River, they will die without a place to bury them."
Lu Bu gripped Fang Tian's painting halberd tightly, and he seemed to feel that there was a powerful and familiar opponent on the other side of the Yellow River.
On Mount Mang, Wang Jian personally set up the formation.
For the defender, defending the city is the worst policy.
Offense is the best defense, followed by relying on geographical advantage to keep the enemy out of the city.
Mang Mountain became the position to resist Wu Qi.
The craftsmen of the Guanzhong Army set up camps in Mangshan, and teams of Qin Ruishi camped, and the Golden Fire Cavalry patrolled.
Lao Qin brought Jia Xu to Mang Mountain in person.
"Mang Mountain is an ancient battlefield. We occupy a favorable location. If Wu Qi wants to attack Mang Mountain, at least half of the 80,000 Wei soldiers will be lost."
When Lao Qin passed by, the generals Wang Jian, Li Xin, Meng Wu, and Meng Tian stood in awe.
The fall of Hanoi County is already a certainty. The Guanzhong Army did not intend to fight Wu Qi in Hanoi County with relatively flat terrain, but chose to defend in the steep terrain of Mang Mountain.
To the north of the Yellow River is the army of the State of Wei, while to the south of the Yellow River is the army of the State of Qin.
Wu Qi's army collected boats for crossing the river on the north bank of the Yellow River, and used them to cross the river.
In Hedong County, the leader of the Jie people, Shi Le, was limping. He was injured in the battle with Yue Fei's army, and led the remaining tribes to escape from Shangdang County to Hedong County.
"King Xia's forces destroyed our Jieren tribe, this revenge must be avenged!"
Shi Le gritted his teeth, and the Jie tribe was wiped out by the Yue family army. The treatment was worse than that of the Xiongnu and Xianbei. Shi Le only took away 100,000 Jie people.
He had to rely on the soldiers and horses of Hedong County to join the battle.
Lao Qin deployed 70,000 soldiers and horses in Hedong, together with Shi Le's 30,000 Jieren cavalry, formed a 100,000 Hedong Army, threatening Wu Qi's army from the west.
Shi Le's adviser Zhang Bin said: "When Wu Qi's army crosses south and occupies Mengjindu, we will recover Hanoi County and cut off its retreat. Even if it has the resources of heaven, it will be defeated."
"My Black Dragon Army has been reorganized, and this battle must be won no matter what."
Because Shi Le was defeated by Yue Fei, he wanted to get back face from Wu Qi this time.
In the rear of Shile, the Heilongxiang army, which was the source of troops from the Xiongnu and Jie people, was ready to go.
On Helan Mountain, Tuoba Xianbei tribe's tiger-patterned iron cavalry and Northern Wei iron eagle scouts marched towards Hetao. The war eagle hovered in the air, overlooking the dark Xianbei cavalry from a bird's eye view.
The central Xianbei came out in full force.
The leader Tuoba Tao and the schemer Cui Hao are the core figures of the Central Xianbei Army, one is good at fighting, and the other is a strategist.
Cao Cao, Xun You, and Guo Jia couldn't get much benefit from them. Of course, Tuoba Tao and Cui Hao couldn't gain an advantage over Cao Cao.
However, this time when they attacked Hetao, they were facing Yue Fei's Yue Family Army and Yang Ye's Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry.
In Taiyuan County, soldiers of the Yue Family Army entered the teleportation formation and teleported directly to Yunzhong County.
In the northern war, the three major princes wanted to kill each other regardless of the price and cost, so they opened all the teleportation arrays and directly used the teleportation arrays to transfer troops back and forth.
Once the teleportation is opened, ten thousand taels of gold.
"Cao Cao can't suppress Tuoba Xianbei, let us solve it."
The order Yue Fei received was to stick to Hetao, wait for an opportunity to attack Helan Mountain and Yuzhong, and attack the western part of Bingzhou and Liangzhou.
His main opponent is Tuoba Xianbei.
Tuoba Xianbei grazes in Helan Mountain, but has always coveted the Hetao Plain.
Cao Cao attacked Tuoba Tao twice, and drew with Tuoba Tao, but failed to make progress.
Tuoba Tao, as a hero at the level of Emperor Wu, has the help of the mastermind Cui Hao, which is extremely difficult.
Zhang Xian and Niu Gao led the infantry and crossbowmen of the Yue family army to arrive at Yunzhong County first.
Yang Zaixing followed Yue Fei and led the cavalry of the Beiwei Army, and then arrived in Yunzhong.
"Tuoba Xianbei, if you don't want to surrender and hand over your military power, then kill him."
Yue Fei has already learned that Tuoba Tao's Xianbei army is marching towards Yunzhong County.
The whole world was raging because of Chutian's instigation of the Great Northern War. Great battles broke out at the junction of the three major princes. Yue Fei no longer knew how many battlefields there were.
The big battlefields include Mangshan, Hulaoguan, Hetao, Youzhou, and Monan, and there are countless small battlefields. Even the city defense troops and rogue bandits participated in the battle.
The Han Empire entered the chaotic situation of the Great Northern War.
According to the statistics of later historians, the number of troops involved in the northern war may have exceeded 4 million. It was one of the five major battles during the reign of Emperor Wu of Xia!
"Cross the river, cross the river!"
Wu Qi's army came to the north bank of the Yellow River and collected thousands of small wooden boats. The Yellow River water transport fleet that had been prepared in Liyang, Puyang and other places traveled upstream and transported the 180,000 soldiers and horses commanded by Wu Qi to the south bank to attack. Mang Mountain.
As long as Mangshan is captured, Luoyang will be like a defenseless girl.
Teams of Wei soldiers in sharp clothes boarded wooden boats and crossed the Yellow River at night. There was a small-scale battle with the Qin army stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River. Thousands of people were killed or injured on both sides.
The Qin army retreated, and at dawn, Wu Qi's army crossed the Yellow River smoothly.
"Crossing the river is too easy. The Qin army deliberately retreated, trying to delay our 180,000 cavalry between Mangshan Mountain and the Yellow River, and then cut off our retreat, and wiped out our 180,000 cavalry..."
Wu Qi did not relax because he crossed the Yellow River smoothly. On the contrary, this was Lao Qin and Jia Xu's strategy.
Luoyang is not that important to Lao Qin.
Luoyang at this time is not the capital of the country, but just the outer line of defense of Chang'an. Even if Luoyang falls, it is within Lao Qin's acceptable range.
His purpose was to annihilate Wu Qi's 80,000 Wei soldiers.
The threat of 80,000 Wei soldiers is too great.
In order to capture Luoyang, Wu Qi took the initiative to join Lao Qin's plan.
Lao Qin wanted to cut off Wu Qi's retreat, so he needed Shi Le's Jieren cavalry and Hedong cavalry to recover Hanoi County and complete the siege of Wu Qi.
However, at the teleportation formation in Hanoi County, Chu Tian personally commanded the imperial guards to arrive.
A team of cavalry with a defensive power comparable to that of the Iron Buddha appeared. Monk Wanyan Chen's Zhongxiao Army and Heli Heli Army were ordered to station in Hanoi County to protect Wu Qi's retreat, so that Wu Qi would not have to fight freely because he was worried that the food road would be cut off.
The Zhongxiao Army and the Heli Heli Army expanded in size. Among them, the Zhongxiao Army had 1,000 cavalry, and the Heli Heli Army had 7,000 cavalry.
"No fanfare."
Chu Tian came out of the teleportation formation, wearing the armor of an ordinary general, making people think that Chu Tian was just an ordinary general.
Xiao Chuo also put on the armor of a general, and followed Chu Tian as a clerk.
In order to hide his whereabouts, Chu Tian didn't even bring Dian Wei with him.
Dian Wei's figure is too conspicuous.
"Shi Le, the Jie man, last time Yue Fei let him escape, this time I will personally deal with the Black Dragon Army."